What makes me happy is some of today’s kids still go back in time to find these gems. I was the same way, I’m 28 now and I prefer this over today’s music. Has nothing to do with being old.
For me this is one of the greatest rap songs of all time. The lyricism is so witty that most people can't even comprehend it. There's a reason why many consider this song so influential and everything OC said is just so true. How rappers these days just don't possess the energy that's needed, say the same shit over and over again, how they fool people with things they've not even been through, most of the time it doesn't even have a concept or is just a vanilla ice, same sex and glock shit. Man, this song hits differently now as I'm someone who loves the rap songs from 1990-2013 and basically after that rap fell off hard times. Only a few like Kendrick, Eminem, Jay Cole, Lil wayne, Nas have kept it alive. My favourite verse will forever be: "Instead of puttin' brain cells to work, they abuse it Non-conceptual, non-exceptional Everybody's either crime-related or sexual." This song will never get old dawgs.
"Everybody is either crime-related or sexual!" O.C. was calling out goofies in the 90s and this statement is even more true in 2020! This whole song is very, prophetic. Back in the 90s you saw the downward trend taking place in rap. The lyrics in this song would even slay all these fake tough guy's on the whole URL/ Smack battle rap leagues. Shout out to OC! #ChicagoIntheBuilding
💯 agree. He saw what damage Suge’s puppets were causing to the game. Biggie and Tupac are legends now but back in the day real heads were calling them out.
This might be the best and yet the most important hip hop track ever to be created. It is so satisfying to watch him drop those beast lyrics with his homies around him, feelin those words and bobbing heads to that devastating beat.... for real, this to me represents the essence of real hip hop and how it stirred my soul growing up as a white suburban kid who felt an affinity toward the black culture around me. I'm 50 next month, but it's joints like this that will *never* let me grow old-minded. l continue to snap my neck to this beat for as long as I live.
"Of course we gotta pay rent so money connects, but I'd rather be broke and have a whole lotta respect... That's what I consider real in this field of music, instead of putting brain cells to work they abuse it, nonconceptual, non exceptional, EVERYBODY'S EITHER CRIME RELATED OR SEXUAL!!! One of the greatest bars ever rhymed!
Yeah, I like the song when it came out. But now I'm 41 years old. I can truly appreciate how dope of a song this was and how profound the lyrics were. 💯💪🏾🇺🇸
I was 23 in 94 and this joint banged out to true heads. Sadly what he was talking about continues today. Rappers either criminally related or sexual. At least we had mad choices in hiphop back then. Last 15 years or so everybody wanna sound the same.
One of the hardest songs in Hip Hop history, the legendary head boppin from the video, and one of the most quoted,sampled and beloved lines of all time.. 🗣 "THE MORE EMOTION I PUT INTO IT, THE HARDER I ROCK!" 🙌
In 2020, still one of the greatest hip hop songs in existence. "You lack the minerals and vitamins, iron and the niacin. . . Of course we gotta pay rent so money connects, but uh I rather be broke and have a whole lotta respect. It's the principle of it. I get a rush when I bust some dope lines I wrote that maybe somebody'll quote. That's what I consider real in this field of music. Instead of puttin' brain cells to work, they abuse it."
IN 2021 THIS IS STILL ONE OF ILLEST JOINTS EVER RECORDED FROM 1994. A INDISPUTABLE HIP HOP CLASSIC THE WAY HE FLOWS PERFECTLY OVER A SICK TRACK...🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯
Nah, man you're wrong it can be but the majority of us who are older think we're too old to bang hip hop in our whips because we trying to fit in with these young dummies. But from what I can see ALL of us who loved this hip hop back then still love it now being that we're still watching and loving this shit on UA-cam. We gotta let these og mcs know we still love their shit and need more because all this new shit we cant relate to because these niggas just poppin pills, and talking bout shit they ain't never did or going to do
@@kingheff2771 old head mentality. Out of all the hip hop listeners you should know better and not look at hip hop on the surface level. Listen to Benny the butcher, westside Gunn, Earl sweatshirt, rome Streetz. Not everything I hip hop rn is popping pills grow up
OC may be top 5 Most Underrated MCs of ALL TIME. Just listening to this record almost 30 years later, it STILL resonates! Certain records captured the sound of the 90s & this is clearly one of them. Man...'94 was an amazing year.
@@TheWackyWorldofOTV word ideas life and the jewels got heavy rotation on college radio and we bumped it in the streets but thats about it no yo mtv raps interviews no rap city no grammys etc.
OC may be unrecognized on the main line but craaaaaaaaaazy and highly acknowledged as one of the Most premier rhyme artists in hiphop in the 90's to where his joints are STILL HITS right NOW in years two thou!!!!!! OC is mad nice and precise FACTS!!!
Who's here in 2024? Damn, I almost forgot how hard this went.
One of the hardest EVER MADE.
I’m here
Never heard it before, just came up on FB 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👊🏼
lack the minerals and vitamins!
Big facts
This song doesn’t age, it’s future proof.
I see what you did there...
RIP Big Proof
Hip Hop was on fire at this time
"Your persona is drama that you acquired in high school in acting class / You're whole aura is plexiglass" - OC was snapping in 93 smh
Now that line right there could've been aimed at Pac if you think about it now
@@354allday I was thinking the same thing. Tupac was a thespian.
It was aimed at that bald skinny dark Cuban nigga known as Tupac Amaru Shakur 😄😃
@Eric 1. I don’t like 2pac
Whats a face told me you hit this kid in the face at the park .That's a lie.
When hip hop had heavyweights, and not sucker punchers
Damn!!!! I like that!! Salute!! 👊👊
For sure 💯
Aye bruvv I gotta take that line bruvv I can give you the credit for it but ima need that
Real talk
The punchline era is the second best!!
One of the most beautiful beats I've ever heard in my 42 years on this planet..👌
Is that tubular bells guitar sample?
No lame dance
No naked girls
No show off money
No mumble lyrics
No cars
No auto tune
JUST PURE TALENT 😢. Miss ol days.
And he had something worthy to say...
Old ahh boy
AGREED
What makes me happy is some of today’s kids still go back in time to find these gems. I was the same way, I’m 28 now and I prefer this over today’s music. Has nothing to do with being old.
NOT A CELL PHONE IN SIGHT 🤓
A master class in lyricism.
For me this is one of the greatest rap songs of all time. The lyricism is so witty that most people can't even comprehend it. There's a reason why many consider this song so influential and everything OC said is just so true. How rappers these days just don't possess the energy that's needed, say the same shit over and over again, how they fool people with things they've not even been through, most of the time it doesn't even have a concept or is just a vanilla ice, same sex and glock shit. Man, this song hits differently now as I'm someone who loves the rap songs from 1990-2013 and basically after that rap fell off hard times. Only a few like Kendrick, Eminem, Jay Cole, Lil wayne, Nas have kept it alive.
My favourite verse will forever be: "Instead of puttin' brain cells to work, they abuse it
Non-conceptual, non-exceptional
Everybody's either crime-related or sexual." This song will never get old dawgs.
Word!
Agreed.
It’s crazy this song is still relevant present day and it’s almost 30 years old
Of Course .. it’s about when the Times End!
Cause he spit some real ish lol
I was a young head...16 when I caught this knowledge. Good overdose and now a great supplement.
"You lack the minerals and vitamins"
I felt that bro.
Irons and niacins too
@Alejo great comment is great
I did
It really hits us anemic people hard
GMO rappers
its 2020 and OC still fire
Still one of the most fire hip hop songs of all time
Yes!
All the time
And still relevant
2021 still fire
What's so crazy about is what he's rapping about applies to a lot of the rappers today
and back then too
"Everybody is either crime-related or sexual!" O.C. was calling out goofies in the 90s and this statement is even more true in 2020! This whole song is very, prophetic. Back in the 90s you saw the downward trend taking place in rap. The lyrics in this song would even slay all these fake tough guy's on the whole URL/ Smack battle rap leagues. Shout out to OC! #ChicagoIntheBuilding
You hit it on the nail, "prophetic"
@@yahnamore or prescient
I've been telling that to people for years, folks gotta wake up!!
@@yahnamore wa
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💯 agree. He saw what damage Suge’s puppets were causing to the game. Biggie and Tupac are legends now but back in the day real heads were calling them out.
The culture of hip hop will never age.
What are you talking about? Have you not seen what it's become?
True Hip Hop classic. 86 to 98 golden era.
This is undisputed real hip hop....Rap!
One of the greatest in my book
Somehow this has not been silenced...
Remember watching my big brother iron his clothes getting ready to go out while this was on all the time.
Tony Freeman Your brother know true hip hop when he hears it
MyI bro too!!! This is straight up ironing music!
Beautiful memory bro!
One of the best hip hop tracks ever made
This might be the best and yet the most important hip hop track ever to be created. It is so satisfying to watch him drop those beast lyrics with his homies around him, feelin those words and bobbing heads to that devastating beat.... for real, this to me represents the essence of real hip hop and how it stirred my soul growing up as a white suburban kid who felt an affinity toward the black culture around me. I'm 50 next month, but it's joints like this that will *never* let me grow old-minded. l continue to snap my neck to this beat for as long as I live.
Peace!!!
Every bar is incredible, my favourite record of all time.
Facts👊🏾💪🏾
Epic song…they used this beat in 8 Mile when Proof (R.I.P.) was on stage battling Eminem.
PROBABLY MY FAVORITE RAP SONG EVER! I TOTTALY AGREE!. IM 46 AND THIS TRACK CHANGED MY WORLD.
The amount of samples this song is responsible for is insane. Timeless rap✨
especially acapella!
About 30 different rap songs take different parts of his song.
rapperz are in danja!!!
I can't believe this comment was so far down in the section
Tubular bells guitar sample?
Timeless! When lyrics mattered.
You ain't never lie
Facts.
#MajorFacts
My thoughts exactly
This is so classic!!!
It takes me back to a time!!
The epitome of that raw East coast sound!!
2025 And times up never gets old ,this is the best of the best
I was 22 when this dropped in 2024 52 still bumping this joint!
Ageless my guy
This shit so hard. Mixing slick Rick visual in at the end was slick.
SERIOUS BARZ!!!!!!!! "non conceptual, non exceptional, everybody is either crime related or sexual"💯💯💯💯💯💯💪
#truth
30 years later all we have is that but with terrible altered computer voices!
@Sony Bruno I'm sad for you but glad you recognise the real!
Man where did hip hop go 2023 😢
Still remains in the underground
"Of course we gotta pay rent so money connects, but I'd rather be broke and have a whole lotta respect... That's what I consider real in this field of music, instead of putting brain cells to work they abuse it, nonconceptual, non exceptional, EVERYBODY'S EITHER CRIME RELATED OR SEXUAL!!! One of the greatest bars ever rhymed!
Facts on facts! OC blew the doors off on this track. He spoke TRUTH! He represents HIP HOP!
Gives me goosebumps every single time. Greatest hiphop song of all time IMHO
No sht!!!!
Yeah, I like the song when it came out. But now I'm 41 years old. I can truly appreciate how dope of a song this was and how profound the lyrics were. 💯💪🏾🇺🇸
One of my favorite rap songs to date...and I've been listening since '83!
ysgtimothy23 same than you Bro, it’s so good
Buckwild on production , always on point 👌
yep, '83 here - easily top 3 for me
What are you other favorites? Very curious to know
@@EkoNumb Too many to list!
I was 23 in 94 and this joint banged out to true heads. Sadly what he was talking about continues today. Rappers either criminally related or sexual. At least we had mad choices in hiphop back then. Last 15 years or so everybody wanna sound the same.
1st time hearing this 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Damn son that's what I'm talking about
This might be the greatest beat ever made!
One the greatest songs ever. Made
Keep in mind, dear comment reader:
“Their time’s limited; hard rocks too”
Rick The Ruler!
This track is about is perfect as it gets. Dope lyrics, slick Rick sample in the hook, and ridiculous beat.
Rick The Ruler the only true Ruler not that other trash
The more emotion I put into it
The harder I rock! OC is that fire!
hell yeah, I love the roll and flow of that line
This should have millions of views
Dropping pure knowledge to deep for some to understand...CLASSIC!
Hope the kids come check this after listening to Montana. 💪🏻
Hey the MoRE EMOTION I PUT INTO ThE HARDER I ROCK..
TIMEs UP BRING BACK THAT ReAl LYRICAL CONTENT with that underground street hop.
💯💯🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
When he says :
The more emotions i put to it, the harder i rap.
This track is the eternal flame. It will stay on fire forever
❤
I've been trying to find this video for ages. So thankful to Rate Your Music.
beat is so timeless, golden era ✨
No words for this...
Les DeMerle - A Day in the Life
Buckwild's production is always on point 🔥
His flow is straight out of hell. Straight inferno fire.
The second verse just sums up what real hip-hop music should be. A Classic, no doubt!
If one song could describe the entire 90's decade, it's this one. Only one word describes this song..."Anthemic"
I remember Tony touch used this on one of his mixtapes and I would replay that part over and over..” you lack the vitamins and minerals “
This was cool when it came out, but morphed into a classic.
Embarrassed I missed out on this one for so long. What a banger
All Props to O.C check this version out😎 ua-cam.com/video/H5_igT4iPWk/v-deo.html
Same here
No embarrassment for finding a gem
One of the hardest songs in Hip Hop history, the legendary head boppin from the video, and one of the most quoted,sampled and beloved lines of all time..
🗣 "THE MORE EMOTION I PUT INTO IT, THE HARDER I ROCK!"
🙌
All Props to O.C check this version out😎 ua-cam.com/video/H5_igT4iPWk/v-deo.html
THE REALEST HIPHOP SONG EVER!
I get fking goosebumps on my arms when i hear this!🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
In 2020, still one of the greatest hip hop songs in existence. "You lack the minerals and vitamins, iron and the niacin. . .
Of course we gotta pay rent so money connects,
but uh I rather be broke and have a whole lotta respect.
It's the principle of it. I get a rush when I bust some dope lines I wrote that maybe somebody'll quote.
That's what I consider real in this field of music.
Instead of puttin' brain cells to work, they abuse it."
O.C was in goat mode with this shit
IN 2021 THIS IS STILL ONE OF ILLEST JOINTS EVER RECORDED FROM 1994. A INDISPUTABLE HIP HOP CLASSIC THE WAY HE FLOWS PERFECTLY OVER A SICK TRACK...🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💯
Sad that there will never be Hip Hop like this again. 😪
Nah, man you're wrong it can be but the majority of us who are older think we're too old to bang hip hop in our whips because we trying to fit in with these young dummies. But from what I can see ALL of us who loved this hip hop back then still love it now being that we're still watching and loving this shit on UA-cam. We gotta let these og mcs know we still love their shit and need more because all this new shit we cant relate to because these niggas just poppin pills, and talking bout shit they ain't never did or going to do
Naw, Real Hip hop never left, but this here is a all time great Jawn tho. But hip hop ain't dead....
History always repeats its self
I hate these kinds of comments. So you're saying all your favorite artists aren't making music anymore?Cause mine sure are .
@@kingheff2771 old head mentality. Out of all the hip hop listeners you should know better and not look at hip hop on the surface level. Listen to Benny the butcher, westside Gunn, Earl sweatshirt, rome Streetz. Not everything I hip hop rn is popping pills grow up
I discovered the *D.I.T.C.* crew two years ago, but ignored O.C., not after hearing this track!
This shit is *MEAN!* 🔥
Always said that he killed this jawn!!! Its May 2019 and this is still🔥🔥HOT Throwback!!🔥🔥🔥
"Jawn," Philly in the house 😁
Straight classic song. I first heard it on NY Undercover episode in like 94 and a fan ever since
Me too homey gotdamn dat instrumental doe
NEW YORK UNDERCOVER! YES!
Blasphemous name. N9thing can change my love for you.
That song matched that scene so perfectly!
I remember when it premiered on Rap City!
Someone on the 8mile comments recommended this too me I'm forever grateful
This is one for the vault, to cherish until end of days. And big up to Buckwild for this insane track.
One of the Best Classical Hard Core rap songs of the early 90s...
That Slick Rick Sampls was the Icing on that Killa Beat Cake.
this shit been on repeat for an hour now! crazy joint.
All Props to O.C check this version out😎 ua-cam.com/video/H5_igT4iPWk/v-deo.html
A perfect moment in hip hop. We salute you OC!
Our generation was the dopest 1980s - 90s
OC may be top 5 Most Underrated MCs of ALL TIME. Just listening to this record almost 30 years later, it STILL resonates! Certain records captured the sound of the 90s & this is clearly one of them. Man...'94 was an amazing year.
All Props to O.C check this version out😎 ua-cam.com/video/H5_igT4iPWk/v-deo.html
This EMCEE is SUPER UNDERRATED!
@Mitchell Rivera I beg to differ, I was around during the 90s and he was RARELY acknowledged during that time also.
@@TheWackyWorldofOTV word ideas life and the jewels got heavy rotation on college radio and we bumped it in the streets but thats about it no yo mtv raps interviews no rap city no grammys etc.
OC may be unrecognized on the main line but craaaaaaaaaazy and highly acknowledged as one of the Most premier rhyme artists in hiphop in the 90's to where his joints are STILL HITS right NOW in years two thou!!!!!! OC is mad nice and precise FACTS!!!
Legendary.
This song was so damn New York
1994 - the greatest year in hip hop!
Why can't we take it back to this shit! They say history repeats itself, and slowly I see it happening. Real Hip Hop
This beat is insane!!
Still bumpin this joint in 2020 with a facemask.
Okay kids… THIS is what REAL HIP-HOP is suppose to sound like 👍!
Needs to be re-released in 2024! Still 🔥
OC was ahead of his time with this dope track. One of hip hops best kept secrets.
One of the best hiphop songs of all time. Always relevant.
Absolutely 💯
One of the most underrated emcees of all fucking time!
Woooooooow still relevant to hip hop today
Damn crazy how relevant this still is for rappers now
That's what makes a classic a classic if he could be dropped in any era of hip hop. Everybody was original back then
One of the greatest songs in hip hop history, sampled in 97 other songs.
O.C. is another classic dope M.C.!
The beat is mad. Timeless track.
Straight lyricism ❤
this is one of the dopest song I´ve ever listened to.
Second verse best 2pac diss ever 😁
Gheesh. 2024. Still a banga
Back again
Pure magic...
Undisputed 90's NYC real hip-hop CLASSIC!!!
Anyone that gave this a thumbs down doesn't know a thing about lyricism or pure hip hop!!!🔥💉
This was truly hard as hel..... hiphob baby....😊
GOAT era. Real rap and HipHop.
...thats Mutherfuckin right Man! The best School... is the Oldschool!
Peace from Germany
Damn I never heard this! Grew up on Wu-Tang and East Coast hip-hop. I feel cheated. 🔥